Æ24 - Gordian III ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ ΑΡΓΩ, Β

Magnesia on the Maeander — not to be confused with Magnesia ad Sipylum — maintained a civic coinage under Gordian III that leaned heavily on its mythological claim to the Argonauts, the city having traditionally asserted a connection to the heroes through local foundation legends. The Β designation likely indicates a magistrate's mark or a second emission within the civic sequence, a common bookkeeping convention for provincial mints under the Severan and post-Severan administrations.

Gordian's reign was short enough that provincial issues dating to it carry an implicit chronological tightness — he died in 244, probably killed near Zaitha on campaign against Shapur I.